Filters

Session Filter

Only trades during high-liquidity sessions. Blocks all trading on weekends and after Friday 20:00 UTC (closes all open positions before the weekend).

London:   07:00 – 12:00 UTC
New York: 12:00 – 17:00 UTC
Overlap:  12:00 – 15:00 UTC  ← highest liquidity, best signals

News Filter

Fetches high-impact events from the ForexFactory calendar every 60 minutes. The filter works in two phases — a fixed pre-event block and an adaptive post-event check:

After the event, the bot checks the live ATR every cycle. As soon as the last 3 candles show ATR within 2× the baseline (candles 4–24), trading resumes automatically. This means the bot can catch post-news continuation moves — the clean directional trend that often follows big events like NFP and FOMC — without entering during the chaotic initial spike.

{
  "filters": {
    "use_news_filter": true,
    "news_pre_buffer_minutes": 15,
    "news_post_max_minutes": 60,
    "news_atr_spike_multiplier": 2.0
  }
}

Market Regime Filter

Classifies the H4 market state using ADX and Bollinger Band width. Ranging markets are skipped entirely — no edge exists in choppy conditions.

Correlation Filter

Prevents opening two highly correlated pairs at the same time, which would double exposure to the same underlying risk.

Blocked groups (if one is open, others in the group are skipped):
  EURUSD · GBPUSD · AUDUSD · NZDUSD
  USDCAD · USDJPY · USDCHF
  GBPUSD · GBPJPY · GBPAUD
  XAUUSD · XAGUSD

Volatility Filter

Checks the 14-period ATR on H1. If the ATR is below the minimum threshold, the pair is too quiet to trade. The AI volatility predictor adds an additional GARCH-based layer on top of this.

{
  "filters": {
    "min_atr_multiplier": 0.5
  }
}

Spread Filter

Checks the live spread before placing any order. If the spread exceeds max_spread_pips, the trade is skipped.

{
  "risk": {
    "max_spread_pips": 3.0
  }
}